Tag: NGV Lectures

Dr Ted Gott Senior Curator, International Art Salome and Sirens, Severed Heads and Damsels in Distress: The Unique World of Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau inhabited an imaginative world that set his art, and himself, apart in fin-de-siecle Paris. While his art became ever more liberated and independent, his own lifestyle became ever more reclusive. Join Ted Gott as he retraces Moreau’s compelling journey from his optimistic student years in Italy, through the public setbacks and personal tragedies that shaped his utterly unique aesthetic. Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 6pm for 6.30pm Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road (enter North entrance, via the Arts Centre forecourt). Cost: Friends of the Gallery Library – Free, Guest – $15. Bookings essential, includes refreshments on arrival. Bookings deadline 16 February 2011, 03 8620 2258 OR email: jessemyn.schippers@ngv.vic.gov.au

The final cut: Unmasking the artist Dr Vivien Gaston, Curator Curator of The Naked Face: self-portraits Dr Vivien Gaston will illustrate and discuss the six themes of this current major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria Australia and position the works in the wider context of the history of self-portraits. She will also consider the current controversy surrounding this innovative exhibition. Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International Date: Saturday 12 February 2-4pm Cost: $32 Adult / $27 NGV Member / $29 Concession / $16 Student (includes afternoon tea, bookings essential) Program bookings 03 8662 1555, 10am-5pm daily

Friends of the Gallery Library Lecture Michael Varcoe-Cocks (Conservator of Paintings 1850 – 1950) The Science of Landscape: Technical Research into the Paintings of Eugene von Guérard Eugene von Guérard was Australia’s most sophisticated colonial landscape painter. His intricate depictions (that varied from remote wilderness to the grazing pastures of the western district Victoria), portrayed the specificity of Australia’s geology and fauna through a considered observation of nature that was informed by scientific principles. In April 2011 the NGV will hold the first exhibition to celebrate this artist’s work in more than 20 years. This lecture will discuss the technical research and conservation treatments currently being undertaken on paintings held in the NGV’s collection. Evidence-based research has informed questions of originality, aesthetic priority, framing choices and the ideology at the centre of von Guérard’s artistic practise. The circumstances and manufacture…

Alison Inglis Associate Professor in Art History, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne An important example of the Brotherhood – The history of the Pre-Raphaelite collection in the National Gallery of Victoria The Ursula Hoff Annual Lecture 2010 This lecture will provide an historical overview of the internationally significant collection of Pre-Raphaelite works in the National Gallery of Victoria International. It will consider the historical context that produced the major works as well as the motivations that prompted their purchase. Date: 8th November, 6:00pm for 6:30pm. Venue: National Gallery of Victoria International (NGV International), Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, St Kilda Road, Melbourne (via the north entrance via Arts Centre Forecourt). Champagne will be served on arrival. Bookings essential – contact NGV Bookings 8662 1555 Event code M1070 The Ursula Hoff Annual Lecture 2010 is presented by The National…

UPDATE: RSVP extended to October 14th. The La Trobe University Alumni Art History Chapter presents, with the National Gallery of Victoria, the thirteenth annual Rae Alexander Lecture Dr Chris McAuliffe Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art (University of Melbourne) On fibbing considered as one of the fine arts Art, according to Picasso, is ‘the lie that tells the truth’. Artists demonstrate their talent for elegant fibbing both in their art and the comments they make upon it. Why are we so willing to accept without question the ‘beautiful lies’ that artists produce? And how does art history navigate truth and untruth in art? Dr Chris McAuliffe is Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne. Prior to that he was for ten years a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at The University of…

Dr Isobel Crombie Senior Curator, Photography, NGV The World Turns: Contemporary Asian Photography Thursday 19 August, 2010, 6pm for 6.30pm Presented by The Friends of the Gallery Library, National Gallery of Victoria. Mapping is an essential part of life. We create maps to help locate us geographically but we also construct them to orient us politically and even artistically. The art world has a map which, until recently, was dominated by New York, London and Paris. In recent years, however, this map has started to change: and it is clear that the art world is no longer centralised in the way that it once was. The advent of biennales in Istanbul, Shanghai, Fukuoka and Delhi are evidence that the art world is turning and the spotlight is moving to the Asia Pacific. In this lecture, I will be looking at…